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Undergraduate Film And Visual Culture 2015-2016

FS1006: INTRODUCTION TO FILM AND THE CINEMATIC EXPERIENCE

15 credits

Level 1

First Term

This course offers an introduction to the language and practice of formal film analysis. Each week we will explore a different element of film form and analyze the ways in which it shapes the moving image.This course invites students to think about formal elements within and across a wide range of genres, styles, historical moments, and national contexts. By the end of this course, the successful FS1006 student will be able to recognize and communicate the ways in which meaning is made in cinema.

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FS1506: INTRODUCTION TO VISUAL CULTURE

15 credits

Level 1

Second Term

What is Visual Culture? Over the last twenty years, the visual landscape has become digital, virtual, viral, and global. A vibrant cross-section of scholars and practitioners from Art History, Critical Theory, Cultural Studies, Anthropology, and Film Studies have responded, not only engaging contemporary image production and consumption, but also the foundations of visual knowledge: What is an image? What is vision? How and why do we look, gaze, and spectate? From the nomadic pathways of the digital archive to the embodied look that looks back, this course will introduce students to the key concepts that shape this fluid field.
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FS2003: CINEMA AND MODERNITY

30 credits

Level 2

First Term

The first half of a film history sequence at the second year level, Cinema & Modernity focuses on crucial moments, concepts and cinematic works from the period 1895 to 1945. Students will be marked according to a mid-term essay, a final exam, short assignments on Blackboard, and participation and attendance in lectures and tutorials. 
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FS2506: CINEMA AND REVOLUTION

30 credits

Level 2

Second Term

The second half of a film history sequence at the second year level, Cinema & Revolution focuses on crucial moments, concepts and cinematic works from the period between 1945 and the present. Students will be marked according to a mid-term essay, a final exam, short assignments on Blackboard, and participation and attendance in lectures and tutorials. 
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FS3010: CINEMA AND SCIENCE: BEYOND SCIENCE FICTION A

30 credits

Level 3

First Term

The course will invite students to explore the relationship between cinema and science beyond the paradigm of science fiction cinema. Underground and mainstream fictional, documentary and educational moving image works will serve the discussion of both theoretical and practical questions at the crossroad of film theory, visual culture and science and technology studies (STS).

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FS3021: PSYCHOANALYSIS AND CINEMA A

30 credits

Level 3

First Term

This course will examine the history of psychoanalysis and cinema’s clinical, philosophical and filmic interactions before approaching film works as case studies of specific pathologies and concepts (psychosis, perversion, trauma etc.). Films by Pabst, Powell, Hitchcock, Haneke, Lynch, Svankmajer, Huston, Olivier, Winocour, Cronenberg and others will be considered.
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FS30IF: LOOKING UP: FILMING A CHILD'S VIEW A

30 credits

Level 3

First Term

This course will examine how by adopting a youth's point of view, the filmmaker privileges their approach to constructing a filmic narrative. A number of overlapping themes will be examined through a selection of films from American, European and world cinema. Among the topics to be considered are: a child's view of war, defender of the community, coming of age, confrontation with authority and 'the Other', economic hardship, impact of marital break-up and single-parent families, separation anxiety, and survival.
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FS30IG: THE NARRATIVE WITHIN THE FRAME (A)

30 credits

Level 3

First Term

This course will investigate different forms of image making, including paintings, photographs and films by different artists from a range of historical periods. We will be considering narrative form and content as shaped by subject selection, composition and framing, use of colour or black and white, and control of light. These themes will be considered from aesthetic, historical and theoretical perspectives. Through a series of seminars, workshops and screenings, students will learn approaches to still and moving image making that will culminate in a practice-based creative project including a group video installation.
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FS3521: THE ANIMATE A

30 credits

Level 3

Second Term

This course will analyze the image’s intersections with life, death, movement and soul in a range of texts and works: Kleist, Baudelaire, Freud, Rilke, Benjamin, Schulz, Barthes, Whale, Lubitsch, Bellmer, Jonze, Scott, Erice, Disney, Svankmajer and the Quays.
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FS3522: MEDIA ARCHAEOLOGY AND HISTORIOGRAPHY A

30 credits

Level 3

Second Term

This course will explore theories of media archaeology and visual historiography across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. We will consider various media formations alongside scholarly responses to these questions. Readings will include Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Jonathan Crary, Lisa Gitelman, Tom Gunning, Katherine Hayles, Erkki Huhtamo, Matthew Kirschenbaum, Friedrich Kittler, Vivian Sobchack, Paolo Cherchi Usai, and Siegfried Zielinski (among others).

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FS35IB: ON DOCUMENTARY: HISTORY, THEORY AND PRACTICE

30 credits

Level 3

Second Term

This course will allow students to engage in documentary production by putting into practice methodologies they have studied through a series of seminar discussions, workshops and screenings. Students will research two topics (one assessed and one non-assessed) and work in teams to film them and utilize the Media Lab's facilities to complete the projects through post-production.
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FS4010: CINEMA AND SCIENCE: BEYOND SCIENCE FICTION B

30 credits

Level 4

First Term

This course will invite students to explore the relationship between cinema and science beyond the paradigm of science fiction cinema. Underground and mainstream fictional, documentary and educational moving image works will serve the discussion of both theoretical and practical questions at the crossroad of film theory, visual culture and science and technology studies (STS). Readings will include (among others): Giorgio Agamben, Lisa Cartwright, Peter Galison, Bruno Latour, Thierry Lefebvre, Étienne Jules Marey, Virgilio Tosi, Pasi Väliaho.
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FS4021: PSYCHOANALYSIS AND CINEMA B

30 credits

Level 4

First Term

This course will first examine the history of psychoanalysis and cinema’s clinical, philosophical and filmic interactions before approaching film works as case studies of specific pathologies and concepts (psychosis, perversion, trauma etc.). Films by Pabst, Powell, Hitchcock, Haneke, Lynch, Svankmajer, Huston, Olivier, Winocour, Cronenberg and others will be considered.
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FS40IC: THE NARRATIVE WITHIN THE FRAME B

30 credits

Level 4

First Term

This course will investigate different forms of image making, including paintings, photographs and films by different artists from a range of historical periods. We will be considering narrative form and content as shaped by subject selection, composition and framing, use of colour or black and white, and control of light. These themes will be considered from aesthetic, historical and theoretical perspectives. Through a series of seminars, workshops and screenings, students will learn approaches to still and moving image making that will culminate in a practice-based creative project including a group video installation.
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FS40ID: LOOKING UP: FILMING A CHILD'S VIEW B

30 credits

Level 4

First Term

This course will examine how by adopting a youth's point of view, the filmmaker privileges their approach to constructing a filmic narrative. A number of overlapping themes will be examined through a selection of films from American, European and world cinema. Among the topics to be considered are: a child's view of war, defender of the community, coming of age, confrontation with authority and 'the Other', economic hardship, impact of marital break-up and single-parent families, separation anxiety, and survival. We will additionally focus on film adaptations and the link between films and their social and historical contexts within popular culture.
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FS4506: DISSERTATION IN FILM & VISUAL CULTURE

30 credits

Level 4

Second Term

This course will provide students with guidance on writing a dissertation on a topic approved by the programme co-ordinator for the Head of School.
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FS4521: THE ANIMATE B

30 credits

Level 4

Second Term

This course will analyze the image’s intersections with life, death, movement and soul in a range of texts and works: Kleist, Baudelaire, Freud, Rilke, Benjamin, Schulz, Barthes, Whale, Lubitsch, Bellmer, Jonze, Scott, Erice, Disney, Svankmajer and the Quays.
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FS4522: MEDIA ARCHAEOLOGY AND HISTORIOGRAPHY B

30 credits

Level 4

Second Term

This course will explore theories of media archaeology and visual historiography across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. We will consider various media formations alongside scholarly responses to these questions. Readings will include Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Jonathan Crary, Lisa Gitelman, Tom Gunning, Katherine Hayles, Erkki Huhtamo, Matthew Kirschenbaum, Friedrich Kittler, Vivian Sobchack, Paolo Cherchi Usai, and Siegfried Zielinski (among others).

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